Nato doesn't know where it is with Donald Trump

The Nato summit in Ankara was as confusing as ever for those taking part. Donald Trump was in their midst and sounding off about the alliance being rubbish and not spending enough money on defence and failing to support the US in its war with Iran. And yet, at the end, Trump said he loved everyone, everyone loved him and the alliance had a bright future. Or words to that effect. Generally what Trump says in public is what he means. So at some stage in the summit, Trump must have thought to himself: "This organisation isn't so bad after all. Everyone is being so nice to me and when I want a quick nap no one jogs my arm." So when it was over, it was all sweetness and light. How long this will last we will have to see, especially now that the US and Iran have gone back to battering each other, and the issue of who runs the Strait of Hormuz remains as fuzzy as ever. It's never going to be a Nato war, but at some point the alliance will have to give more backing to the US, if only for the sake of the future of the whole of the Middle East.